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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine in downtown Chicago. Two Feinberg professors are part of a team tackling newborn mortality in Africa, which was selected as one of four finalists in a national competition.

Global team including NU professors wins $15 million to improve newborn survival in Africa

February 13, 2018

Two Northwestern professors are part of a team that recently won $15 million to increase survival rates for newborn babies in Africa. Feinberg and McCormick Prof. Robert Murphy and Kellogg Prof. Kara...

Mikki Hebl, a psychology professor at Rice University, speaks to students in Harris Hall. Hebl discussed how unconscious bias can influence treatment of minority groups.

Rice professor discusses impact of unconscious biases

May 13, 2015

Rice University psychology professor Mikki Hebl spoke at Northwestern on Tuesday night about the prevalence of unconscious biases and the impact they have on the lives of social minorities. Hebl presented...

The award-winning Dover Quartet will start their three-year residency at the Bienen School of Music this fall, where the members will perform and teach master classes. The members of the quartet met when they were students at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Dover Quartet prepares to join Bienen in the fall

April 22, 2015

A&E The Dover Quartet, which has performed in the Northwestern’s Winter Chamber Music Festival for the past two years, will return to campus this fall to begin a three­-year residency...

Ussama Makdisi, a professor of history at Rice University, speaks Monday at the Evanston Public Library. Makdisi discussed the origins of sectarianism in the modern Middle East.

Rice University professor discusses sectarianism in Middle East

March 3, 2015

A Rice University professor spoke Monday at the Evanston Public Library on sectarianism in the Middle East and how the region’s history of coexistence has slowly been forgotten. Ussama Makdisi,...

Junior Alicia Barnett winds up for a volley. A First-Team All-Big Ten selection last season, Barnett is a key part of a Wildcats squad that looks primed to take home a 17th consecutive Big Ten title.

Women’s Tennis: Wildcats, freshmen looking to bring ‘grit’ to ITA Kick-Off

January 21, 2015

No. 17 Northwestern will host No. 32 Arizona State, No. 21 Rice and No. 44 Kentucky in the ITA Kick-Off Weekend that commences Saturday. This is the first competition of 2015 that counts toward the...

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